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The Latest Breaking News from Volkswagen

This Volkswagen Car Seat Looks Like It Has a Jacket

Pull the zipper and there's a different upholstery underneath.

Motor1

Why have Audi workers stolen 200 keys from a Brussels plant?

Audi workers confiscated hundreds of keys for completed and unfinished cars in a backlash to Volkswagen’s plans for plant closures.

Fortune

XPEV Stock 2025 Forecast: Can Xpeng Make It Big With New Models?

While Xpeng Motors has come off its 2024 lows, the stock is still deep in the red for the year. Here's the 2024 forecast for the stock, and the key factors that investors should watch out for.

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As Volkswagen weighs its first closure of a German auto plant, workers aren't the only ones worried

Volkswagen is considering closing some factories in its home country for the first time in the German automaker’s 87-year history

The Independent UK

Mercedes Isn't Retreating From China. Its Doubling Down

The brand is investing $2 Billion into cars that are meant to take on China's homegrown EV startups.

InsideEVs

An ‘earthquake’ at Volkswagen – and a crisis for Germany?

The company is seen as crucial not just to local but national wellbeing – and never before have its workers been threatened in their own homeland like this

The Guardian - UK

Toyota Cuts EV Goals, Also Gets Billions In Battery Subsidies From Japan

Also on Critical Materials: More on the German auto industry's "multiple challenges," and South Korea forces EV makers to name names.

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VW Has 'One, Maybe Two Years' to Turn Things Around, Says Finance Chief [UPDATE]

Chief Finance and Operating Officer Arno Antlitz painted a dire picture of VW Group's future during a meeting with workers in Germany.

Motor1

Volkswagen Chief Warns Brand Has 'One, Maybe Two' Years To Get It Together

Today on Critical Materials: VW puts a clock on getting their ship in order, BYD pauses its Mexico plans and Ultium workers in Tennessee join the UAW.

InsideEVs

Deutsche Bank CEO urges Germans to work harder to pull the country out of its economic lull

“We simply have to tell our fellow citizens that we have to do more again,” Deutsche Bank’s Christian Sewing said.

Fortune

VW slams production into reverse as industry faces battles on all sides

Plan to cut German factories is politically fraught but makes sense economically given Chinese competition, falling demand and CO2 rules

The Guardian - UK

China's BYD Was The Third-Best-Selling Brand In The World This July

BYD outsold everyone except for Volkswagen and Toyota this July. But they're still only in eighth place for the year.

InsideEVs

Volkswagen bosses clash with workers over possible plant closures

Volkswagen's management went head to head with some 25,000 employees as leaders defended planned cost cuts that include possible plant closures in Germany and the end to a long-running job protection scheme. Unions say the threat is tantamount to a "declaration of bankruptcy". Also in this edition, China rolled out…

France 24

ChatGPT gives Volkswagen cars the smarts to talk to you all day long

VW releases ChatGPT-powered voice assistant for most models.

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VW Bosses Defend Possible Plant Closures At Stormy Meeting

Volkswagen executives defended plans to consider the unprecedentedclosure of factories in Germany during a heated meeting Wednesday with thousands of staff, saying falling sales had hit it hard.

International Business Times

Ex-VW Boss Tells Trial 'Dieselgate' Charges Are 'Implausible'

Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn said Wednesday the charges against him were "implausible" as he testified at his trial over the "dieselgate" scandal that rocked the German auto titan.

The Guardian - UK

Volkswagen has ‘a year, maybe two to turn around’, financial chief warns

Carmaker defends plan to close German plants as Volvo ditches target to sell only electric cars by 2030

Fortune

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume will spar with one of Germany's fiercest worker groups over his €10 billion cost-cutting plan to save the carmaker

Volkswagen is a unique case—half the seats in its supervisory board are controlled by labor representatives, who can determine the company’s future course.

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France 24

Lebanon's ex-central bank chief arrested over alleged financial crimes

Lebanon's former central bank governor, Riad Salameh, has been arrested in Beirut. Once lauded for reviving the country's economy after the civil war, Salameh's later years in office were marred by allegations of financial crimes including embezzlement and money laundering. Plus, the trial against Martin Winterkorn, the former CEO of…

InsideEVs

Scout Motors Will Reveal Its SUV And Truck On October 24

Volkswagen is reviving the iconic Scout brand to make a line of rugged EVs. The reveal event is just around the corner.

Motor1

The 2025 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Starts at $33,940

The six-speed manual and seven-speed dual-clutch automatic are the same price.

InsideEVs

Volkswagen May Close Factories In Europe: ‘It’s A Catastrophe’

Volkswagen is considering to shut down one plant and one components factory in Germany to cut costs amid rising competition from China.

Motor1

VW Could Close German Factories for First Time in Its History

Plants building the ID.3, T-Roc Cabriolet, and Porsche 718 variants could get the axe as VW Group tries to cut costs.

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Volkswagen boss goes on trial over ‘dieselgate’ scandal

Martin Winterkorn denies charges of fraud, providing false testimony and misleading markets over the affair

Motor1

The 2025 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Is a Last Bastion of Affordable Fun

Even though Volkswagen tweaked the GLI formula for 2025, it's still a top-tier sports sedan.

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